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by benrutter 9mo ago
> I personally don't think it's worth it to buy a Fair phone for the extremely low chance that a component breaks and you can't get it repaired. I might be misreading you, but this comes across a little like "that one
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by benrutter 9mo ago
That's true-ish. The repairability of phones varies a lot, with some even having batteries glued into the model. If you're just considering repairability, a fairphone is almost certainly one of your best options. But like you poin
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by benrutter 9mo ago
I guess maybe if the comparison you're looking at is the one you mentioned? Second hand normally beats everything else since it's avoiding what would other wise be waste, and there's nothing new that needs to be manufactured.
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by benrutter 9mo ago
> the job market definitely incentivizes people to have that kind of experience on their resume Yeah, this is sadly often true, but it's also another trap that people don't have to fall into. I've been involved with hiring
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by benrutter 9mo ago
This times a zillion! I think there's been a huge industry push to convince managers and more junior engineers that spark and distributed tools are the correct way to do data engineering . I think its a similar pattern to web dev infl
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by benrutter 9mo ago
> Are those days permanently gone? The days when actual UI/UX innovation was a thing? I think "yes" and "a bit", in that order. The early days of the web and mobile, where everything was new, are gone. In those d
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by benrutter 9mo ago
This looks great! If I didn't hace dependencies blocking it, I'd genuinely try out the alpha build just for this profiler alone!
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by benrutter 9mo ago
You were arguing that the use of Microsoft office vs the bespoke Palantir app were equivelent, and I'm simply pointing out that they are very different. I'm a stranger on the internet, if you don't already think that the USA&
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by benrutter 9mo ago
This looke incredibly helpful! Not sure if I hust haven't come across the right tools yet, but I always find performance monitoring in python very tricky. There aren't any tools I know of, that meet the standard of say coverage, w
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by benrutter 9mo ago
From the article for context: > Palantir is working on a tool for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a “confidence score” on
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by benrutter 9mo ago
Mostly blog posts about open source data stuff https://benrutter.codeberg.page/site/
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by benrutter 9mo ago
I am tall enough that shrinking t-shirts is a constant annoyance! (though I have to admit I haven't ever tried the 'conditioner and water' trick, even though I've heard of it before). Low temperature washes and avoiding
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by benrutter 9mo ago
I don't think so - have you tried popOS's latest Cosmic DE though? I think it's in Beta now - it's a written from scratch desktop environment, that puts the tiling extension like behavior as a first class citizen. If you
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by benrutter 9mo ago
I think its worth saying two things: 1. This result is very far from showing something like "human mathematicians are no longer needed to advance mathematics". 2. Even if it did show that, as long as we need humans trained in un
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by benrutter 9mo ago
Haha, shear potential seems like a great accidental pun. I'll have to find an excuse to use it deliberately over the next week.
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by benrutter 9mo ago
Hello back! The JVM is a great parallel example. Anyone listening to the hype in the early days based around what the JVM could be would surely be disappointed now. It isn't faster than C, it doesn't see use everywhere due to pr
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by benrutter 9mo ago
I think one the big things with web assembly is it's shear potential is huge. In theory, WASM could be a single cross platform compile target, which is kind of a CS holy grail. It's easy to let your mind spin up a world where eve
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by benrutter 9mo ago
I share your anger at the US' decent into authoritarianism, but 1.8% is nearly 1 in 50. That's pretty huge for a protest by most counts.
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by benrutter 9mo ago
Yeah, for what its worth I agree. But I can't see how those arguments would apply to abolishing Greenlands law, but not to invading and claiming ownership in the first place. If the US doesn't have checks and balances to stop it i
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by benrutter 9mo ago
This is a really interesting take, I've been thinking very similarly. I think there's a tendency to think of 'free markets' as having a lot more scope than they do - almost no countries allow free markets to determine th
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by benrutter 9mo ago
> unless of course the US also plans to bulldoze Greenland's sovereignty. It's probably not helpful for me to speculate, but surely this? If the US is truly prepared to invade another ally's territory for material gain, I&
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by benrutter 9mo ago
I think that's true - but I guess Rust and Zig are unique in that list on being new memory-managed languages (i.e. without garbage collectors). Low level memory-managed languages have been C and C++ mostly for a really long time, so I
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by benrutter 9mo ago
> That suggests a way forward will come from formalising natural language arguments. Hot take (and continue with the derailment), but I'd argue that analytic philosophy from the last 100 years suggests this is a dead end. The idea t
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by benrutter 9mo ago
This looks nice! I had no idea you could actually control notifications as an app. One thing I've always wanted is the ability to "group" notifications. Apps like WhatsApp can be really bad for pinging lots of times within a
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by benrutter 9mo ago
> our environment is increasingly build on the assumption that we carry a smartphone with us at any given time. This is so true! Surprised how many commenters are saying "just have self control" etc - a phone is close to essent
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by benrutter 9mo ago
Ah woops! Sorry for my outdated clojure knowledge, this sounds cool though- I'll give it a go!
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I think yes if that line was UV. But otherwise, of its just python, you have the issue that you need two tools, one for running scripts and one for managing dependencies and environments.
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Yes, that's exactly what I meant! Sorry if it wasn't clear. In my experience this used to be easily the most popular method up until a couple years ago.
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by benrutter 9mo ago
I think then big part is maintenance, xorg doesn't look likely to be maintained long into the future in the way Wayland will be. And a lot of the Xorg maintainers are now working in Wayland. So good or bad idea, Wayland is slowly shift
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by benrutter 9mo ago
Not sure that's fair- claiming you prefer reading texts in full to summaries doesn't seem the same as saying you don't ever want to read a summary in any context? Aside from that, it seems more valuable to think about the ode

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